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2023 Renville County, MN Power Outage Report
In 2023, customers in Renville County, MN went without power for an average of 0.7 hours, a total of 4,545 customer-hours (Minnesota average 3.0 hours). That ranks 62nd worst of 82 Minnesota counties and 2772nd of 2,977 nationally.
Compared with MN, the US and 2022
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of Minnesota customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Renville County, 2023
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | September 6, 2023 08:15 | September 6, 2023 08:30 | 15m | 568 | 142 |
| 2 | December 11, 2023 11:30 | December 11, 2023 21:15 | 9h 45m | 304 | 2,133 |
| 3 | May 18, 2023 19:00 | May 18, 2023 21:15 | 2h 15m | 100 | 190 |
| 4 | October 3, 2023 22:45 | October 4, 2023 02:45 | 4h | 78 | 138 |
| 5 | August 26, 2023 20:30 | August 27, 2023 06:00 | 9h 30m | 66 | 363 |
| 6 | August 3, 2023 17:30 | August 3, 2023 19:15 | 1h 45m | 33 | 24 |
| 7 | November 7, 2023 17:00 | November 7, 2023 19:00 | 2h | 30 | 55 |
| 8 | December 7, 2023 15:00 | December 7, 2023 20:45 | 5h 45m | 28 | 52 |
| 9 | August 4, 2023 12:45 | August 4, 2023 16:30 | 3h 45m | 27 | 59 |
| 10 | November 2, 2023 14:00 | November 2, 2023 19:00 | 5h | 26 | 60 |
Outage episodes by size in 2023: 3 reached 100+ customers, 0 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Renville County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2023, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Northern States Power Co - Minnesota | 2023 | 1.7 hrs | 0.86 | 74 min | 0.77 |
| Brown County Rural Elec Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 0.73 | 73 min | 0.61 |
| Minnesota Valley Coop L&P Assn | 2023 | 1.6 hrs | - | 69 min | - |
| McLeod Cooperative Power Assn | 2018 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 | 2.7 hrs | 2.60 |
| Meeker Coop Light & Power Assn | 2023 | 77 min | 1.12 | 77 min | 1.12 |
| Renville-Sibley Coop Pwr Assn | 2018 | 1.7 hrs | 1.02 | 82 min | 0.91 |
| City of Olivia - (MN) | 2018 | 5 min | 0.09 | 5 min | 0.09 |
| City of Fairfax - (MN) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of Minnesota's customers in 2023; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 6,578 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Renville County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Renville County, MN annual power outage report, 2023, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2023/minnesota/renville-county